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Acts 11:9
But the voice spoke from heaven a second time, ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.’
Acts 11:9 · Berean Standard Bible
Acts 11:9 in other translations
But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, ‘What God has cleansed, don’t you call unclean.’
But a voice answered the second time out of heaven, 'What God has cleansed, do not call unclean.'
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In context
6 I looked at it closely and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles, and birds of the air.
7 Then I heard a voice saying to me, ‘Get up, Peter, kill and eat.’
8 ‘No, Lord,’ I said, ‘for nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’
9 But the voice spoke from heaven a second time, ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.’
10 This happened three times, and everything was drawn back up into heaven.
11 Just then three men sent to me from Caesarea stopped at the house where I was staying.
12 The Spirit told me to accompany them without hesitation. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man’s home.
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